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If You Disagree with President Trump and Yet You’re Mad About the Effects of the Shutdown, You’re A Hypocrite. My family and I traveled a grand total of 6,086 air miles roundtrip to see relatives abroad for the holidays. We stood through four airport security checkpoints (that’s a whole ‘nother story), and picked up more…

It’s that time of year, people. Pretty soon it will be socially acceptable to watch Christmas movies (though if you ask our neighbors, who have had their Christmas lights up and on for weeks—I’m way behind). One of my favorites is A Christmas Story. If you haven’t watched it, watch it. Seriously, a classic. Remember…

In the fall of 2012, an elderly California man named Jay Leone found himself the victim of a home invasion. As he sat, ordered to stay still as the thief rifled through his things, the man remembered he had a gun in the bathroom. Leone convinced the thief—a drug addict felon named Samuel Cutrufelli—to let…

You know those times when you and your siblings would be squabbling despite your mom’s repeated calls to knock it off—and finally she’d yell “ENOUGHHHHHHHH” so loud all your heads would jerk to attention? Yeah, would love to be able to do that now, but on a much larger scale. Seriously, ENOUGH. I don’t often…

My daughter’s currently obsessed with the movie “The Boss Baby” (or “Mean Baby” as she puts it). At one point in the film, Tim—the seven year old who’s feeling the squeeze of the baby—is cornered by Boss Baby and informed that unless he gets with the program, “there will be cutbacks.” A distraught Tim goes…

Those of you who have read my work for any period of time know the lengths my husband and I had to go through to be together here in the United States. Piles of paperwork; thousands of dollars; months of separation—all of it just to get legal residency status. If he wants citizenship, that’s another…

“What do you mean you’re taking over my job?” says an incensed Rachel Green on the show “Friends.” “Well, while you were on your baby vacation I was DOING your job,” replied Gavin, Rachel’s temporary replacement while she’s out on maternity leave. I never fully understood Rachel’s rightfully annoyed reaction until I had kids and…